Soul Kitchen

Young restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his “Soul Kitchen” customers are boycotting the new gourmet chef, and he’s having back trouble. Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn’t mend Zinos’ broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable ex-con brother Ilias. Both decisions turn out disastrous: Ilias gambles away the restaurant to a shady real estate agent and Nadine has found a new lover! But brothers Zinos and Ilias might still have one last chance to get “Soul Kitchen” back if they can stop arguing and work together as a team.

(Opening film of the 50th TIFF)
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: Fatih Akin, Adam Bousdoukos
Cinematography: Rainer Klausmann
Editing: Andrew Bird
Sound: Kai Lude
Music: Klaus Maeck
Actors: Adam Bousdoukos (Zinos), Moritz Bleibtreu (Ilias), Pheline Roggan (Nadine), Birol Uenel (Shayn), Anna Bederke (Lucia), Dorka Gryllus (Anna), Wotan Wilke Mohring (Thomas)
Production: Corazon International GmbH, Germany T. +49 403 1182 380 F. +49 403 1182 3821 amt@corazon-int.de www.corazon-int.de www.soul-kitchen-film.com
Producers: Fatih Akin, Klaus Maeck
Co-production: Pyramide Productions (France) & NDR (Germany)
Art Direction: Tamo Kunz
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: Germany
Production Year: 2009
Duration: 99
Distribution in Greece: Rosebud – Zinos Panayotidis T. +30 210 6786505, F. +30 210 6755067 zpan@odeon.gr www.odeon.gr
Contact: The Match Factory, Germany T. +49 221 539 709-0, F. +49 221 539 709-10 info@matchfactory.de www.matchfactory.de

Fatih Akin

He was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1973 to Turkish parents. A screenwriter, director and actor, his films have won awards at numerous international film festivals. In 2003 he founded the film production company Corazon International. In 2004, his film Head On won the German Film Award for Best Film, Direction, Screenplay, and Cinematography, the Golden Bear at Berlin, and the award for Best European Film at the European Film Awards. The Edge of Heaven was nominated for the Golden Palm and won the Best Screenplay and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Cannes IFF 2007.

Filmography

(selected)
2000 Im Juli/In July
2003 Gegen die Wand/Head On
2005 Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul (doc.)
2007 Auf der anderen Seite/The Edge of Heaven
2009 Soul Kitchen